7 Quotes About Empathy

Empathy is the ability to understand the emotions of others, or to understand how others are feeling. It is also the ability to get inside another person’s mind, which is the key to being able to effectively communicate with him or her. Empathy is essential to human relationships and necessary in any close relationship. We all need empathy and we all need people who we can relate to and who we can empathize with.

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Life is sometimes to be a monkey with a monkey, to be a dog with a dog, a bird with a bird, water with water, tree with tree! It is a great wisdom to interiorize the mind of others, in other words, to make their spirit our own spirit! Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you have never walked a mile in someone’s shoes,...
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If you have never walked a mile in someone’s shoes, do not mock the soars on his feet. Matshona Dhliwayo
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Help your child see others' emotions as well as experiencing his or her own without imposing your judgment. Iben Dissing Sandahl
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There's no room for hate and violence in this world. We must learn to be more kind, compassionate, empathetic, and sympathetic to humanity. Germany Kent
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We can only come to terms with our own place in the world by compassionately commiserating with the pang of longing that our brethren experience. Kilroy J. Oldster
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The process of categorisation is as old as men, yet as old as man alone, for no other animal species categorises itself so neatly. Yet the ultimate, most vulnerable and weakest victim of categorisation is empathy. Categorisation is a process that destroys the very empathy that enlivens communities: the empathy that traditionally binds diverse communities together. Joshua Krook